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Crappie fishing at Shearon Harris Lake is good for fishermen targeting numbers of fish or good-sized slabs.

Jordan Lake crappie numbers fell in 2011

It’s been clear to piedmont crappie chasers for about two years that Jordan Lake no longer is the region’s No. 1 slab spot. […]

Brade White returns an undersized redfish to a coastal creek in the Beaufort area.

Red roundup – Read the tide for March redfish in Beaufort

Jerry Dilsaver

The mist was thick as Trea Everett buzzed Simons Hane’s flats boat through the winding creek that separates Lady’s and Dataw islands, and gives quick and easy access to the creeks and marshes north and east of US 21 when the tide is high enough. […]

March is a great month for fishing big crappie on Lake Tillery.

The other March Madness – Big crappie and good numbers are on the menu on Yadkin/Pee Dee reservoir

Tony Garitta

March Madness isn’t confined to basketball courts. Another sports-related frenzy takes place this month on Lake Tillery, an inconspicuous 5,260-acre reservoir on the Yadkin/Pee Dee system that forms the border between Montgomery and Stanly counties in North Carolina’s rural, southern Piedmont. […]

Trea Everett lets fly with a ‘taped’ cast net to catch winter shrimp in a deep hole.

Deepwater shrimping for bait

Jerry Dilsaver

Most South Carolina fishermen are familiar with the annual fall shrimp baiting season, but there is also a season for shrimp caught using seines and cast nets, but without bait. […]

A great year-class spawned in 2010 should make for some tremendous crappie fishing this spring on Lake Tillery.

Expectations good for Tillery crappie

Tony Garitta

According to biologist Troy Thompson of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, anglers can anticipate excellent crappie fishing at Lake Tillery this season. […]

Rule of Twelfths

Jerry Dilsaver

The Rule of Twelfths is a guideline for determining where the tide is in the rise and fall cycle and how swiftly the current is running. […]

Robert Patterson has included a fishing-related blog to his website about living on Lake Tillery.

Angler creates Lake Tillery blog

Tony Garitta

Fisherman Robert Patterson, who has a lakeside home on Lake Tillery, has incorporated a blog on the lake on his website. […]

Knowing how quickly the tide rises and falls will help fishermen decide when to arrive to fish a certain area or piece of structure like this crumbling bulkhead, complete with oyster rocks and barnacles.

Working with Beaufort area tides

Jerry Dilsaver

The tidal change in the Beaufort area is one of the more extreme along the entire southeastern coastline. The average high tide exceeds seven feet, and the highest projected for March is 8.5 feet. […]

Crappie fishermen at High Rock are having some success in lightly-stained water away from the muddy main body of the lake.

Crappie biting at High Rock — if you can find stained, not muddy, water

Craig Holt

It’s usually tough for freshwater fishermen about the time March arrives because of cold and stained or muddy water in North Carolina reservoirs. […]

Capt. Steve Roff said a lot of bull redfish are found and caught just off the beaches between Georgetown and Bulls Bay in March.

Either/or — How to catch bulls and puppy drum between Charleston and Georgetown

Terry Madewell

Successful fishing is all about choices. Redfish angler have two choices this month, and both are winners. […]